Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those rare bosses capable of combining a strong party organization scandal-free with a administration, progressive, sat in relatively the Governor's mansion. Richardson Dilworth presided in Philadelphia's city hall continuing the reforms started by Joseph Clark. before he moved on to the Senate. William Green the Elder ran the party in Philadelphia, and on Election Day his well-financed cadres produced the plurality that John F. Kennedy needed to carry the state...
Cleansing Operation. Walsh was an exception. In Philadelphia, Green's son, Congressman William Green III, has been fighting a losing battle against Tate's effort to purge the party of in dependent-minded, younger men. Green was a Kennedy backer before the Senator's assassination. Tate and Barr, along with the leadership of organized labor, supported Humphrey. The stalwarts were strong enough to deliver 103¾ of Pennsylvania's 130 delegate votes to Humphrey- the very votes that nailed down the nomination for the Vice President- even though Eugene McCarthy had won Pennsylvania's primary...
...Barr's and Tate's maintain a tenuous hold on power, the party's real strength has been slipping away. In the past six years, the Democrats have lost two gubernatorial elections and one U.S. Senate contest. While the Republicans have been fielding attractive candidates like William Scranton. Hugh Scott and Raymond Shafer, and backing them with unite campaigns, the Democrats have been wasting their energies in destructive primary contests...
From the start, nine Roman Catholic pacifists on trial in a Baltimore federal court last week knew that they did not have a prayer. Defense Lawyer William Kunstler conceded immediately that the nine, who included three former missionaries, a nurse, an artist and two priests, had broken the law by taking 378 files from Draft Board 33 in suburban Catonsville last May and burning them with homemade napalm...
...Basel's Kunstmuseum, where they discovered the only known likeness of Andrew Johnson painted while he was in office. It was the work of the itinerant Swiss artist Frank Buchser. The scouts brought it back, together with the Buchser portraits of California's Sutter and Poet William Cullen Bryant, who looks as though he was caught in the very act of writing "To a Waterfowl...